All versions of Windows (since Windows 98) have an inbuilt FTP functionality. That means you can access your Website’s FTP using your Windows Explorer. The primary advantage of using this method is that you can upload and download files from your website just as you move or copy files in Windows.

Windows 7 / Vista

1. Go to Start Menu and click on “Computer”:



2. Now in the “Computer” window click on “Map Network Drive” in the menu bar:



3. A network configuration wizard appears. On this new window click on “Connect to a website that you can use to store your documents and pictures”



4. Now a new window titled “Add Network Location” will appear. Click on “Next” to proceed:



5. On this new Window, select “Choose a custom network location” and click next:



6. Now type your Website’s FTP login URL in the textbox provided and click on Next:



7. In the next window, type in your FTP username and click on Next:



8. On the next window that appears, type a preffered name for your “Network Location”:



9. Click “Finish” on the next window and you’ll be done. Now go to your “Computer” once again and you’ll see a new network location there:



10. Now click on that new “Network Location” and you’ll see a dialog box as in the image below. Just type in your username & password in the two fields provided and click on “Log On”:

You have now connected your Website’s FTP to your Windows Explorer (on Windows 7/Vista) without using any external FTP client. You can now upload or download files and folders to/from your server just like it’s another folder on your PC.

Windows XP

1. On Windows XP, type your FTP Login URL in your Windows Explorer “Address Bar”.



2. Enter your FTP login details in the dailog box that follows:

That’s it! You have now successfully setup FTP on your Windows Explorer. If you have any questions, concerns, comments etc. then please leave a comment below!

(The above post was originally written for my old blog but has now been migrated to this blog)

Some of Echofon’s features have been listed below:

Multiple Accounts

Yes, you read it right! Echofon allows you to manage multiple Twitter accounts on the go & also makes it easier for you to switch between them easily.

Search & Trends

It let’s you make searches on Twitter easily & let’s you save them for future reference.You can also view your previously saved searches.

Also, you can view the latest trending topics on Twitter from within the desktop interface. Quite cool, isn’t it?

Image Previews

You can view images from within the desktop interface without opening the web browser with the pop-up photo viewer. All you have to do is click on the small image preview in the tweet.

 iPhone Sync

 Unread tweets stay in sync with your iPhone. If you read tweets on your mac, and later open up Echofon on your iPhone, you can pick up right where you left off. Never again will you read the same tweet twice!

Detail Window

Upon clicking on a user or conversation, a detail window will open up allowing you to read the conversation, or view all of that users’ information including tweets, favorites, lists, retweets.

Enter, Font Load-Unload, a free portable software that loads fonts without installing them on the system. Fonts loaded using this freeware are accessible by all programs installed on your system (like Microsoft Office, Photoshop, web browsers, text editors, email clients etc.) until the Windows session in use is ended (like by logging off, shutting down or restarting the PC).

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Benefits of Font Load-Unload

• It adds a font to the system temporarily. So, if you’re using a font which is you only plan to use once, then you can load it using this software. Even though it is possible to manually install/un-install fonts on Windows, it requires the user to remember un-installing the font before changing the power state of the system.
• It is portable. So, if you’re on a system on which you don’t have a permission to install new things (fonts in this case), then this software will be a great help to you.

Usage

1. To load a font, you can either Drag & Drop the font file on the Load button or click the Load button to select font files using Windows’ file browser.
2. You can unload a font by simply selecting it from the list and then clicking on the unload button.
3. If you have a list of fonts that you use regularly in your documents/presentations/designs then you can save the list of fonts being used in the current session using the program. This list can then be loaded in your subsequent Windows sessions.

MenuUninstaller is a freeware which adds an ‘Uninstall’ option to the Context Menu of Windows so you can then remove the programs right from their shortcuts. All you have to do is right click on the application’s shortcut and click on the Uninstall link which will take you the dedicated un-installer of the application.

While this is not as powerful as other freeware uninstaller’s available, it’s still a very efficient/convenient way of un-installing programs saving a number of clicks you would have to make otherwise.

For different reasons, this great utility sometimes fails to open the un-installer but it’ll just open up the Add/Remove Programs window for you, thus still cutting down on the number of clicks you’d need to remove a program.